Loretta Lynn Quotes

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

Translation is the art of failure.

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.

I have to slow down for some people. In Louisiana, people didn't have a clue what I was talking about. I remember seeing people glaze over. Seeing the moment where they've just completely lost all... They just wait for me to stop talking and then say, 'Yeah.'

I'm always saying normal things, and people usually understand me, but they're like, 'Where are you from?!'

When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.

Sometimes how I explain myself to the media can come across in a slightly different way to how I would mean to say things.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down." Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.